The 1JZ has an "oversquare" design, where the 86mm cylinder bore exceeds the 71.5mm piston stroke. Like many engines with this bore-and-stroke relationship, the 1JZ can quickly reach high RPM.

This engine gets direct injection, but still has the same 198 horsepower output as the 1JZ-GE. Prices for used examples of the Brevis and Progrès range between $1,500 to $6,500, making them ...

The model to own is the 2.5 GT, because it comes equipped with the 1JZ twin-turbo engine, 5-speed manual transmission and Torsen limited-slip differential.

The open-wheel 1JZ V12 we’ll talk about today started out as an idea in 2011, and as you can clearly tell, this fellow harks back to the early days of mid-engine Formula 1 single-seaters.

If you’re a JDM fanatic then I can see the appeal of the JZ or RB, but remember that these engines ruled in the early/mid ’90s. Neither the 2JZ nor RB25/26 are especially cheap engines.

As a quick recap, it's a straight-six engine, produced by the Japanese giant from 1991 and 2007 in two separate generations, the 2.5-liter 1JZ and the 3.0-liter 2JZ.

See, this V12 engine was made by melding two Toyota 1JZ 2.5-liter turbocharged inline-sixes together at the crank. And it was almost entirely home-built by a long-time hot-rodder with ...